St Peter’s Church, Mill End, is part of the Parish of Mill End and Heronsgate with West Hyde and Maple Cross in the Diocese of St.Albans. There are three churches in the Parish - St Peter’s, St Thomas’s and St John’s
Mill End History including St. Peter's Church
By 1880, Mill End had church buildings and so had become a Village it was no longer a Hamlet. It contained St. Peter's Church (built in 1874-5) and a Baptist chapel. The church is of knapped flint with Bath stone dressings and has some fine stained glass windows by Heaton, Butler and Bayne
The village also had a paper mill, tannery, and brewery.
Another notable ancient structure at Mill End was a Timber-framed farmhouse called Shepherds Farm, mentioned in a 1294 subsidy roll with a reference to Robert Le Schephard. The subsidy roll of 1534 records the name of Robert Lane. The Lane family farmed there until 1773, when Joseph Lane sold the farm to Joseph Swannell. By 1839 the Thelluson trustees had bought it. They built a new farmhouse and used the original farmhouse as lodgings for single men employed on the farm.
Tornado Cars used to manufacture Kit cars at 90 Uxbridge Rd, Mill End. The company sold the cars either factory finished or in component form (in which case the buyer was responsible for assembling the car from the components). The first model was shown to the press in August 1958 and production of cars stopped in 1964. Tornado Cars won the 750 Motor Clubs' Six Hour Handicap Relay Race at Silverstone twice and, at its peak, employed 60 people. The new Fairway Tyre Services building on the site is called "Tornado House" as a tribute.
You are looking for a themed host for a nano cache. Please replace very carefully and concealed to casual passersby. The cache is in the church grounds, please be respectful to the surroundings whilst hunting.
Cache placed with kind permission of Rev. Cutmore.
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